This repression includes beatings, kneecappings, executions, detention without trial, torture, restrictions on civic organisations and violent attacks on critics and protesters, as reported in the Guardian last Friday.
It may have been planned as a protest demonstration, but if summary executions of captured U.N. staff occurred as reported, those particular acts cannot be ascribed to individuals who are "protesters".
A modest person who dressed plainly, her last words before her execution are reported as "Lord, into thy hands I commend my spirit!" Jane's execution by a Catholic queen made her into what the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography terms a "Protestant martyr", and by the end of the century Jane had become, in the words of the historian Eric Ives, "a Protestant icon".
But what is certain is that this other, less visible form of capital punishment dwarfs the traditional kind; by an extremely conservative estimate, it is nearly 10 times as frequent as the executions reported each year by the Death Penalty Information Center.
One defense attorney blasted the schedule as an "assembly line" execution, Reuters reported.
Summary executions of prisoners were reported as recently as early 1977, torture has been brutal, widespread and generally unpunished.
Botched executions are widely reported, such as the recent attempt in Ohio to execute >Romell Broom.< 18 attempts were made to inject a needle in Mr. Broom.
Filipino Mary Jane Veloso was spared execution with a reported temporary reprieve.
The report also highlighted the practices of waterboarding and mock executions, as well as rectal feeding, in which food was forced into detainees' anuses through a tube.
Before signing off for the night, she made it clear that she had not been tweeting about the execution as it happened — she reported the events after the fact, according to the AP, based on information from prison authorities and from her colleague Sean Murphy, who was one of the witnesses.
